{"id":6214,"date":"2012-09-29T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6214"},"modified":"2012-09-29T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T01:23:11","slug":"icloud-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/icloud-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;iCloud Backup&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2012\/09\/26\/icloud-backup\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2012\/09\/26\/icloud-backup\"><p>It&rsquo;s easy for most of us around these parts to forget how badly technology still works for so many people. This is supposed to be the best we have today: an iPad, a routine OS update, an Apple Store, an automatic backup feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep thinking that my grandmother would have an easier time with an iPad than her Mac. However, she likes to watch videos that require Flash&mdash;as I found out when Apple issued a software update that required Flash to be manually reinstalled. And no matter how much easier the iPad might be, I don&rsquo;t think it could overcome the increased difficulty of solving problems at a distance. There&rsquo;s no way to do screen sharing to fix things or see what she&rsquo;s referring to, and with so many unlabeled icons and &ldquo;invisible&rdquo; gestures, communicating interface details via phone would likely be even more difficult than usual.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Arment: It&rsquo;s easy for most of us around these parts to forget how badly technology still works for so many people. This is supposed to be the best we have today: an iPad, a routine OS update, an Apple Store, an automatic backup feature. I keep thinking that my grandmother would have an easier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[146,16,31,145],"class_list":["post-6214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-backup","tag-icloud","tag-ios","tag-ipad"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6216,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6214\/revisions\/6216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}